MOST EARWAX IS healthy and doesn’t need to be cleaned on a regular basis, Dr. Schwartz says. However, if you want to clean it ...

Ear candles are marketed as an easy solution for people wanting to get rid of their wax. The technique involves placing a lit, hollow cone-shaped beeswax candle in the ear. This is supposed to ...

But, doctors say ear candling can be dangerous. “I have personally removed candle wax from the ear canal that was left behind, as well as seen patients who had burns to the ear,” Dr. D'Anza says.